Future of Life Institute

The UN Secretary General's High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation - Roundtable 3C on Artificial Intelligence.

Partnership on AI, a nonprofit coalition committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence.

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Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

4,094,000€

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i) More information about our finances can be found on this webpage: https://futureoflife.org/about-us/finances/

ii) FLI only engaged in limited fundraising in 2022 and our total income amounted to 10,000 USD. With the exception of a grant of 1405 USD from the Jewish Community Foundation, these donations were all small grassroots and PayPal donations amounting to less than 1000 USD.

iii) Our budget deficit was covered entirely by our endowment, which has been provided by Vitalik Buterin in 2021. This funding has helped FLI maintain its independence. We are also using his donated funds to support a multi-year grant program: https://futureoflife.org/grantmaking/fli-announces-grants-program-for-existential-risk-reduction/

iv) FLI holds no cryptocurrency.

v) The budget figure provided is for the Future of Life Institute globally, of which our EU activities are a small part. The total budget amount does not include our external regranting (e.g. our PhD fellowships).

vi) With the exception of the Estonian Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, who has served on FLI’s Board of Directors since its 2014 founding, donors do not influence our policy positions. Our conflict of interest policy can be found on this webpage: https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Conflict-of-interest-policy.pdf

vii) The euro amounts listed have been converted from US dollars at the exchange rate for Friday December 30, 2022.

viii) Our annual audit is in process, and FLI reserves the right to modify these provisional figures once the audit has been completed.

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Artificial intelligence and digital

Selected publications, full list available on our main website
- Policymaking in the Pause. What can policymakers do now to combat risks from advanced AI systems?, Future of Life Institute, April 2023.
- FLI Position Paper on AI Liability, Future of Life Institute, November 2022.
- Call For Better Protections of People Affected at the Source of the AI Value Chain, Future of Life Institute, October 2022.
- A Proposal for a Definition of General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems, Future of Life Institute, October 2022.
- The EU needs to protect (more) against AI manipulation, EurActiv, February 2022.
- Position Paper on the AI Act, Future of Life Institute, August 2021.
- Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum, June 2021.
- Open letter on Foresight in AI regulation, Future of Life Institute, 2020.
- Autonomous Weapons: an Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers, 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.

Events
- Workshop for Accredited Parliamentary Assistants entitled "Governing General Purpose AI Systems"
- With Dentons Global Advisors, "Regulating General Purpose Artificial Intelligence" (video available on our YouTube channel)

Relevant websites run by FLI
- futureoflife.org, main website
- artificialintelligenceact.eu, provides analysis on the AI Act as well as a biweekly newsletter
- autonomousweapons.org, makes the case for the regulation of autonomous weapons

The Future of Life Institute works closely with leading AI builders to develop its policy positions. FLI also funds research through recurring grant programs and regularly organises global AI conferences.

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The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

• Date	30 Nov 2023	Location	brussels
  Subject	AI Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Attending	Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Nov 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Artificial Intelligence act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Dentons Global Advisors Europe SA

• Date	18 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels and online (hybrid)
  Subject	AI
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Liviu Stirbat (Cabinet member) Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Dentons Global Advisors Europe SA